There are four things that we ought to do with the Word of God - admit it as the Word of God, commit it to our hearts and minds, submit to it, and transmit it to the world.

My walk is a public one. My business is in the world, and I must mix in the assemblies of men or quit the post which Providence seems to have assigned me.

Africa, your sufferings have been the theme that has arrested & engaged my heart.

God has so made the mind of man that a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry.

The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint

No man has a right to be idle. Where is it that in such a world as this, that health, and leisure, and affluence may not find some ignorance to instruct, some wrong to redress, some want to supply, some misery to alleviate?

Surely the experience of all good men confirms the proposition that without a due measure of private devotions the soul will grow lean.